when jamie sanchez finally gets his throat cut by the general after being dragged around town by a horsein the wild bunch i wasn't differential. leone never resulted to these tactics. hisearlier work with the rifleman american tv series was genus. i can see how the duke would have a beef. and a camel.i don't need to see hamberger coming out a man's back in slow motion. i'd rather see a happy ending. like GB&U did. good for the digestion.

I kind of think of John Wayne being to American actors what Leone was to Italian directors.

With all the stories of Leone, like him taking the guy's trenchcoat after he commited suicide, put Eli and Clint in danger, etc. and John Wayne with his arrogant attitude and his alchohol, they'd probably have killed eachother

I've been watching alot of Wayne's Westerns at the moment and I do very much enjoy them. I must admit, apart from the Searchers, he really does just play himself (helped by the fact that almost every Western role tends to be the same type) but I must admit I do prefer Spag's. I wont say Hollywood westerns are better then the spags and vice versa because each owed a huge debt to the other (the spaghetti's towards Hollywood perhaps even more so). I love all Westerns and I do think Wayne is an apropriate American idol for the American Western, just as much as Ford, Hawks, Peckinpah, Fonda, Ladd and many more who will live on in cinematic mythology.

I feel Wayne was best in Red River. OK in a few others. By the time Big Jake arrived, there was incorporation of some spaghetti references (gun in shower, "continuing "who are you?" "I thought you was dead").